The fragility of marriage in matrilineal societies
Matrilineal descent and the societies that have it have long been seen as being more in need of explanation than patrilineal descent, which tends to be treated as humanity's default when discussing descent. There is a long history of theories of matrilineal exceptionalism in anthropology, datin...
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Language: | English |
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2020
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